“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.”
“Man is not made for defeat.”
“I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.”
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
“All thinking men are atheists.”
“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”
“Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel...”
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
“The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”
“Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”
“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
“I am always in love.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”
“I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.”
“And you’ll always love me won’t you? Yes And the rain won’t make any difference? No.”
“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”
“Easy writing makes hard reading.”
“Strong in all the Broken Places.”
“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
“A man does not exist until he is drunk.”
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”
“Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”
“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
“It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.”
“My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.”
“Most people never listen.”
“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
“I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I’ve lost 30 pounds.”
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
“Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.”
“The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.”
“Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.”
“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.”
“War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.”
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
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